Lubershane: Serial deployment of 1-3 reactor designs beats novel nuclear
Andy Lubershane · The better mousetrap fallacy · Sep 12, 2024 · at 30:21
Andy Lubershane of Energy Impact Partners and host Shail Khan discuss nuclear power commercialization and the benefits of regulatory and industrial standardization.
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“If I were the omnipotent energy czar of the country or the world, I would pick One, two, maybe up to three designs, and deploy them serially and, you know, say we're gonna do 10 of these, and we're gonna see how it works out, maybe 10 of each and we're gonna space them a year or 18 months apart from each other, and I almost guarantee that that would lead to much faster cost down, and maybe even just ultimately lower cost than any of the next generation designs that we're seeing, Could really achieve. I should, you know, I should soften that language. Maybe not any, right? But then the vast majority of the better mousetraps that are out there taking up attention.”
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